Newtekie is right. You will be able to game fine for the most part with that card and CPU. I moved from something very similar not too long ago( Same CPU, same GPU different card, 9800 GTX) and I was able to play all my games on fairly high settings. My 4890 was bottlenecked by the 6000 though. If you can find a good deal go for it.

Newtekie is right. You will be able to game fine for the most part with that card and CPU. I moved from something very similar not too long ago( Same CPU, same GPU different card, 9800 GTX) and I was able to play all my games on fairly high settings. My 4890 was bottlenecked by the 6000 though. If you can find a good deal go for it.

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can i overclock to reduce the bottle neck if i upgrade to say.. a 4870?

If you got the space for 2 more 1GB sticks, but I would go with a 2GB stick if you do as the price here is actually a bit cheaper for 2gb sticks vs 2x1gb sticks.

Also matters how much gfx your using. Something like a 4890 or GTX275 are enough to play any games on the market. And for either of those, something like a PII 550 should work great, or even a PII 240, but later choice would have to be OC'd.

The 740 would be a great choice, I currently have a 720 that I run at 3.7ghz 24/7 and a 4870x2 and trust me, the 720 handles it no problem, I was only 300 points shy of hitting 20k on 3dmark 06 with this setup. It's summer now and warmer here so I don't think I will have time to hit 20k on the tri-core before I upgrade

If you got the space for 2 more 1GB sticks, but I would go with a 2GB stick if you do as the price here is actually a bit cheaper for 2gb sticks vs 2x1gb sticks.

Also matters how much gfx your using. Something like a 4890 or GTX275 are enough to play any games on the market. And for either of those, something like a PII 550 should work great, or even a PII 240, but later choice would have to be OC'd.

The 740 would be a great choice, I currently have a 720 that I run at 3.7ghz 24/7 and a 4870x2 and trust me, the 720 handles it no problem, I was only 300 points shy of hitting 20k on 3dmark 06 with this setup. It's summer now and warmer here so I don't think I will have time to hit 20k on the tri-core before I upgrade

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coool man
this time next summer i'm expecting realllly low prices
possibly upgrade to a PII 740 and pick up an HD4870

Just wait to see whats out then and decide, odds are there will be some wicked OC'd 40nm GPU's out in midrange (like the 4770 now, but actually at reasonable price). And who knows for procs. Either way, sounds like a good plan to me.

the 6000+ is an outer date processor but it still manages to do a decent job of running some late games, I have one and I download alot of PC game demos just to see how it performs and it runs quite well still, overclocking it sux though but I got the 90nm 125w which is the older version so cant do much there.

The performance I get from it in game demo's i download is surprisingly pretty good, for eg.

I downloaded the Resident Evil 5 benchmark and I got a B grade which is decent, thats DX10 aswell avg fps was 51 to 60 i think.

that call of juaraz game performs really well too, no lag wat so ever, it looks so good too.

and that empire total war game I downloaded from steam, performed way better than i thought, i was expecting serious lag and i had all settings on highest possible but it performed pretty gd, avg fps was 21 to 34 fps as i remember.

so I hope this helpps you with ur purchase or wateva it is ur doing, cheers CHAOS!

the 6000+ is an outer date processor but it still manages to do a decent job of running some late games, I have one and I download alot of PC game demos just to see how it performs and it runs quite well still, overclocking it sux though but I got the 90nm 125w which is the older version so cant do much there.

The performance I get from it in game demo's i download is surprisingly pretty good, for eg.

I downloaded the Resident Evil 5 benchmark and I got a B grade which is decent, thats DX10 aswell avg fps was 51 to 60 i think.

that call of juaraz game performs really well too, no lag wat so ever, it looks so good too.

and that empire total war game I downloaded from steam, performed way better than i thought, i was expecting serious lag and i had all settings on highest possible but it performed pretty gd, avg fps was 21 to 34 fps as i remember.

so I hope this helpps you with ur purchase or wateva it is ur doing, cheers CHAOS!

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thanks man
that's the kinda games i want to run
not too graphically intense like crysis.. but more of the CoD4.. CoD:WaW kinda games
that helps a alot thanks